Magic Numbers Take Down The Internet

This cannot keep happening. Another day, another outage. On this week's episode Kris and Matt talk about the recent Cloudflare outage. And boy do they have thoughts, we really hope you enjoy this exchange of monologues.

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Table of Contents:

• Prologue (00:00:00)
• Chapter 1: The Cloudflare Outage (00:02:17)
• Chapter 2: Too Much Centralization? (00:20:24)
• Chapter 3: Communication Matters (00:26:22)
• Chapter 4: Magic Numbers Take Down The Internet [Extended] (00:29:50)
• Chapter 5: Programming Language Hate and AI versus Tools (00:30:19)
• Chapter 6: The Generalist and The Specialist [Extended] (00:49:29)
• Epilogue (00:50:03)

Hosts

• Kris Brandow - Host
• Matthew Sanabria - Host

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• (00:00) - Prologue
• (02:17) - Chapter 1: The Cloudflare Outage
• (02:52) - Chapter 2: Too Much Centralization?
• (26:22) - Chapter 3: Communication Matters
• (26:43) - Chapter 4: Magic Numbers Take Down The Internet [Extended]
• (30:19) - Chapter 5: Programming Language Hate and AI versus Tools
• (35:05) - Chapter 6: The Generalist and The Specialist [Extended]
• (50:03) - Epilogue